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Look I'm not a antivaxxer or conspiracy theorist but we need to kill the neurallink before it ever archives social acceptance.
Depends on the intended use.
Human/brain interfaces have tons of potential for helping people with injuries to their central nervous system. Someone could eventually regain the ability to walk with just a few chips and electrodes.
However if it's like "fuck yeah I wanna mainline the Internet" then yeah, that shit sucks.
Of course Elon owns the company, so it's bound to be the stupid thing.
Yes, helping people in a medical sense that is totally acceptable. But I really don't want them to become something like smartphone. Yeah you can live without a smartphone but realistically it is not possible.
Cybernetic enhancement is fine in principle, but closed-source shit from Elon Musk? Oh Hell naw!
I'm also against cybernetic implants which are 100% FOSS. Because once it is socially accepted there will always be megacorps trying to profit off of it and governments trying to control and surveil their citizens with it.
I tried to get into BCI for both personal reasons and for prosthetic reasons. I admit being able to control my computer faster, and draw/play things faster and more accurately was the goal for myself, but the greater good of improved prosthetics was always on my mind and so fascinating to follow progress on.
When I got called for an initial interview with Neurolink, I turned it down, an entry-ish position for what was at the time my dream job, just because I heard the name Elon and would never work for a two bit hack that thinks 80 hours a week is the minimum time you should spend if you want to make any difference (paraphrased direct quote from the man who "works" 120 hours a week according to himself, and sleeps at his desk a solid chunk of that according to his employees).
If we do ever get transhumanism, it will be too expensive to be for the greater good. Only the rich, who have proven themselves incapable of initiating positive change without financial incentive, will be able to afford it for many generations.